Technical Note—Some Comments on Engel's “A Verification of Lanchester's Law”
Published Online:1 Feb 1972https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.20.1.49
Abstract
A recent reexamination of the combat data from the WWII battle for Iwo Jima has yielded some revisions of the data used in Engel's paper [Opns. Res. 2, 163–171 (1954)]. However, the revised data also fit Lanchester differential and difference equations closely, as Theil's inequality coefficient shows.
